Thursday, March 17, 2016

Saint Ann stops being nice :))

To
the extent it's still standing after yesterday, the Stop Trump movement
is comforting itself with the world's biggest lie: that John Kasich is
the embodiment of the Republican Party, while Donald Trump is the
bastard stepchild.

It's exactly the opposite.

It is no longer a question of what the party wants. The voters --
remember them? -- keep showering Trump and Cruz with Ceausescu-like
percentages. The combined vote for Trump and Cruz is a ringing chorus
of what this party wants: a wall, deportation, less immigration and no
job-killing trade deals.

In other words, what the party wants is the diametric opposite of what
the donor and consultant class wants. One would have to search the
history books to find a party establishment so emphatically rejected by
the voters as today's Republican Party has been.

Trump and Cruz don't agree on everything -- Cruz is more
interventionist on foreign policy, and Trump is more aggressive on
bringing manufacturing home. But there's not much daylight between them
on the crucial issue of whether to dissolve America's borders. By now,
they both say build a wall, reduce immigration and protect American
jobs.

In other words, Trump and Cruz have totally rejected the
Bush/Ryan/Rubio/Fox News/WSJ/RNC establishment position on immigration.

After Mitt Romney lost an election he should have won in 2012, the
Republican National Committee convened a group of experts to determine
what went wrong, producing what it called an "autopsy." It was an
autopsy because, you see, the party was dead. And the people who did
the autopsy were the ones who killed it.Read More »